Heads or Tails Tuesday....

Well today is Heads or Tails Tuesday and this weeks theme is "Who would you Like to Meet". At first I wasn't quite sure if there was anyone...and then I thought some more and I realized yes there are some people I would have like to have met.....first and foremost would have been Mother Theresa."Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
~ Mother Theresa~

A modern day saint. What an amazing woman. She dedicated her whole life to the betterment of mankind. She was always there for the downtrodden. I would have loved to have heard her speak....to experience her gentle touch...to just be in her presence and watch as she so caring and lovingly tended to the sick and dying. How she tried to give them hope and comfort. I don't know how or where she managed to find the strength to do what she did.....you know what the say big things come in small packages....she to me was larger than life and would never fit into any package.....truly an amazing woman and a inspiration.

I would have also loved to have met my grandparents on my fathers side. My father was raised as an only child, he did have a younger sister but unfortunately she died at infancy. My father was born and grew up in a city called Dubrovnik. It sits on the coast of the Adriac in a country that was once called Yugoslavia, now known as Croatia. I know very little about my fathers parents. During the war my father was a captain on a naval ship and he travelled the world. He met and married my mother in England in 1944, and he never returned to his homeland until the late 1960's. I was told that that my grandfather died when my father was young and his mother remarried. His mother ruled with an iron fist and was very strict on my father. I am told she eventually remarried but she out lived husband number 2. I remember when my grandmother passed away. We were all sitting at the dining room table for Sunday dinner and the phone rang, it was for my dad....he spoke in his mother tongue...after he got off the phone...his eyes were red and I saw a tear...something you rarely saw in my dad. I think I was around six years old. There are very few pictures of my fathers parents, and like the pictures there was little information shared about my grandparents. I got the impression that my father was "running away" or wanting to to leave all his childhood memories in Dubrovnik. I sensed that he had bad memories that he just didn't want remember or share. Even though I never got to meet my grandparents I would have loved to have known more about them, I feel like a piece of me is missing, a piece of my family history.

So there you have it, some people I would have loved to have met....now if you would like to play along all you have to do is check out Skittles Place and get all then instructions on how to play along. Hope you join in on the fun. Cheers!